Collection cordel - [Collection of Brazilian literatura de cordel]

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CA OTUTF cordel

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[Collection of Brazilian literatura de cordel]

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  • 1934-2017 (Creation)

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37 Boxes of Textual records

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A collection of approximately 2000 “literatura de cordel” chapbooks, or “folhetos de cordel”, from 1934 to 2017. Most of the chapbooks are printed in the Northeastern provinces of Brazil; including imprints the Tipografia São Francisco (Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará), and the Tipografia Pontes (Guarabira, Paraíba), along with those of several independent poet-publishers, such as the Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante (Salvador, Bahia), the José Francisco Borges (Bezerros, Pernambuco), and Franklin Maxado Nordestino (São Paulo). Also includes a series of woodcut illustrations printed onto broadsides from the artist Enéias Tavares dos Santos.

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Licensed for access by U. of T. users. Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://aeon.library.utoronto.ca.

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      CA OTUTF cordel

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